• Remote Sensing Methods

      . Contact Dr. Stefan Kruse Dr. Birgit Heim Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Birgit Heim (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff

    • High-latitude Biodiversity

      environments in the future. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Temporary Head Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Prof

    • SeaClancy

      development of an implementation concept Migrating mitten crabs at the weser weir (Photo: B. Suckow, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Paul Helmert Contact: Mail Paul (0)471 4831 2204 Duration: 1.26 – 12.27 Funding: [...] Umwelt (dbu) Weirs and barriers are suitable places to stop the mitten crabs (Photo: O. Hauck, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funding

    • Communication

      Neighbourhood Projekt Wohnen in Nachbarschaften (WiN) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI Evalation March 2025 Exhibition stab thm2 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Our trade fair appearances and events (selection)

    • Schedules

      Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2026 2027 longterm plan until 2027 Heincke Heincke-Expedition HE-408 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific [...] coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2025 2026 Small vessels Mya II (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Florian Lange) Scient.Coordinator Uthörn : (Dr. Michael Klages) Scient.Coordinator Mya II : (Dr. Jasper Hoffmann) [...] Kohnen Station Arctic AWIPEV Aircraft Flight schedule Polar 5 'Polar 5' in Bremerhaven (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Flight planning is made internally. Flight schedules: 2024 (Status: November 2023)

    • Bär/Eicken: "The research vessel Polarstern is changing our understanding of the world's oceans"

      Bremerhaven in the presence of Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär and the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Hajo Eicken. From its voyage

    • AIDA

      Funding: AWI Innovation Fond Biologisch inspirierter KI Software Entwicklungsprozess (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Biologically inspired AI software development process

    • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

      Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982, the Polarstern has since logged more than 1.963 million [...] scientific data from various projects are regularly recorded, saved and, if need be, forwarded. The Alfred Wegener Institute’s research stations wouldn’t be able to operate without the Polarstern; for example

    • Computing Centre

      Dr. Stephan Frickenhaus Deputy Heads Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner Profilbild.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Matthias Werner Assistant Heike Lipka-Nixdorf

    • Concentrated knowledge on climate change - new atlas of climate extremes

      A new atlas renders climate extremes in Germany visible: The Alfred Wegener Institute in the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM shows extremes based on the data from the German Weather Service. The atlas